Alfred hodge



No. 6I0,053. Pa tented Aug. 30,1898.

, A. HODGE.

GAME APPARATUS (Application filed Nov. 29, 1897.)

(No Model.)

jay) y M W UNITED STATES;

PATENT OFFm-E.

"GAME ALFR D I-IODGE, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS.

srncrricn'noiv forming part or LettersPatent'No. 610,053, dated. August so, 1898. Application filed November 29,1897. Serial Noeeonee. (N0 ma i.)

To all whom it may concern/.

vBe it known that I, ALFRED Hones, asub ject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification. The object of the present invention is to provide a game-board .in which the angular spaces or safety-points are doubled inconseqnence' of making the board octagonal and ,providing an equal numberof squares or spaces at each side,,so that the players are confined toa space in which the number of divisions between the center of the board and the edge. is nearly uniform all the way around the board.

I make useof a novel game-board, the same being approximately octagonal and having an equal number of divisions orsquares at each of the eight sides, such divisions or squares extending across the board in rows parallel with opposite sides of the octagonal board, and I make use of pieces or men of any suitable or desired shape, but with different colors upon the difierent ends-that is to say, it the colors selected are red and blue each piece will have one end red and the other blue-and the games as played are to bestartedwith an equal number of men to each player, and when in the moves of the respective pieces or men a man is taken by one party thesame is turned upside down to expose the opposite color and cause the piece to become one of the men of the player that has capturedtbe same.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the In consequence of the-board being octago-i nal the game is advantageously commenced in the middle wi h twoor more pieces to each player, and as the game proceeds the pieces tions or subdivisions board being octagonal and with equal numor men are added until the desired number have accumulated upon the board, the game being won by the party having the largest number of pieces or men of the color allotted tohim.

It is to be understood that this game may be played by two or four persons, and that there are numerous ways in which the game can be played upon the same board, and that usually printed rules will accompany the game suggestive of the diiferent ways in which the games can be played upon the board by the pieces or men, as aforesaid. I

Fig. 1 shows the game-board with squares A of. one color and intermediate squares B of another color arranged to form figure, with four such sections or subdivisions upon each of the eight sides and with the subdivisions or squares in rows parallel with the respective opposite sides, and I remark that it is advantageous'to employ square sections or subdivisions, as represented in the drawings, alternately white and black; but the colors may be varied and each section or subdivision may 'have rounded cornersor be circular, so longas the arrangements of the secremain the same, the

bers of sections or subdivisions on each of itssjides. I

I claim as my invention-- A game-board .having a regular octagonal configuration and subdivisions formed by.

lines crossing each other at right angles and parallel with two opposite sides of the gameboard, there being four subdivisions on each of the eight sides, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 27th day of November, l897 y ALFRED ,IIODGE.

Witnesses:

GEO. '11. PINCKNEY, S. T..I-IAvILAND. 

